150 Clinical Medicine Vol 4 No 2 March/April 2004 contact care. Nurses, midwives and health visitors are contributing to integrated health and social care programmes for vulnerable children and adults. All these changes are supported by Liberating the talents,2 the strategy for nursing in primary care which is being taken forward by primary care trusts all over the country. Each of these strate...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess the acceptability and usability of a standardised communication tool for nurses. BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE Communication is key in health care. On a daily, if not hourly, basis, nursing staff is inundated with new information regarding tools and resources, practice changes and the work environment. However, there is currently no standardised messaging or delive...

The objective of the study was to examine effects of nurse-confirmed healthy unit work environments and multistage nurse residency programs (NRPs) on retention rates of newly licensed RNs (NLRNs). Establishing a culture of retention and healthy clinical nurse practice environments are two major challenges confronting nurse leaders today. Nurse residency programs are a major component of NLRN wo...

A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Limpopo Province to identify the perceptions of student nurses, nurse educators and unit supervisors concerning student nurses’ clinical accompaniment in this province. The research objective was to determine whether or not clinical accompaniment of student nurses in the Limpopo Province was perceived to be adequate by t...

AIM The purpose of this study was to explore the strategies used by nurse managers in Japan to facilitate the integration of newly graduate nurses (NGNs) into their clinical units. BACKGROUND The integration of NGNs into clinical units is an important issue for both NGNs and nurse managers because the first year of practice plays a vital role in a NGN's career. METHOD Data were generated th...

Collaborating with practitioners in teaching and research: a model for developing the role of the nurse lecturer in practice areas The integration of nurse education with higher education in the United Kingdom, has highlighted an uncertainty over the clinical role of nurse lecturers. Although benefits have been identified from lecturers maintaining strong links with clinical practice, the evide...